BUBBLEGUM HEART

I find lollipops of pretty, rainbow coloured lies to swirl in my mouth.

sweet and sickly cherry flavoured remorse

bubblegum heart ready to pop

again

i laugh,

at the candy i create on my tongue

weave delusion out of delicate words

fantasies shrouded in pretty pink mist

i find reason

to keep the bubblegum from stretching too thin

but sugar never tasted so much like poison

never felt so toxic

so after i taste every flavour of lollipop to be had

trying to mask you, in synthetic orange and apple and lemon

i once again come to you

so unlike candy disguised cough syrup:

more mapple, more honey, more strawberries

tastes i can't erase from my tongue

no matter the limes and grapes

the cherries and watermelon

the mosaic of factory manufactured flavours i drown myself in--

still, no words taste as sweet as when they come from your lips